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Friday, 20 December 2013

More academic boycotts in solidarity with the Palestinians

Just a couple of days ago I was delighted to report the great news that the American Studies Society (ASS), had voted in favour of an academic boycott of Israel, It now truns out that America’s largest union of university professors – the Council of Research and Academic Professionals (CRAP)which had long ago agreed to boycott Israel, has voted to extend the boycott to America and hence will be boycotting itself. I regard this as excellent solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Over
80% of the Union’s members took part in the vote, with a massive 13
voting in favour and only 11 voting against. This came after an
impassioned plea by CRAP member Professor Angela Ayers-Davis who said:

Since
we are boycotting Israel as a racist, colonial, warmongering, apartheid
state, it is .only fair that we do the same to America. After all,
America is illegally occupying an entire continent belonging to the
indigenous Native Indian population and more recently Puerta Rico and
Hawaii as well as the Mexican land of Texas and California. America is
also fighting a racist, illegal, colonial war against Islam in many
countries. And of course America has a system of apartheid against its
black citizens.

The CRAP President, Professor
Ivor Loudmouth, eloquently laid out the obligations for professors and
the consequences of the boycott:

Since
we must boycott all academics in America, we must cease all
communication between ourselves and our students. We are therefore
arranging for the permanent shut-down of all American universities until
the occupation, apartheid and all foreign wars end. Moreover, since the
boycott obviously applies to all cultural and social interactions this
also means that any professors who are married to each other must get
divorced immediately. Since we are also encouraging non-academics to
observe the boycott those professors who have non-academic partners
should also ask their partners – and indeed all other family members -
to cease speaking with them. For the sake of optimal family cohesion we
recommend that professors remove themselves entirely from the family
home and live in isolation. Professors will still be able to carry out
their own unfunded independent research. However, whereas in the past
they have been able to publish their work in journals run by themselves
or their friends, they will now only be able to submit their articles to
themselves and they must be rejected on the grounds of the boycott.CRAP will provide a template for self-rejection letters.

Obviously,
the shut down of all American Universities will have an impact on
students. In particular, and most disturbingly, they will no longer be
able to spend 4 years being indoctrinated with anti-Israel, anti-Western
propaganda. President Loudmouth admitted this was one of the major
drawbacks of the boycott, but to counter this he said that professors
will be allowed to continue their propaganda work in the main stream
media since that work never did have any connection to their academic
expertise.

In a parallel move the main British academic union – the Federation of Academics Researchers Teachers and Scientists (FARTS)
- which had led the way in boycotting Israel, has also voted to extend
the boycott to itself. The FARTS President, Professor Andy Semite,
announced

Since we are rightly
boycotting Israel as a racist, colonial, warmongering, apartheid state,
it is only fair that we do the same to Britain. After all Britain is
still illegally occupying most commonwealth countries, not to mention
Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands. Britain is also fighting a racist,
illegal, colonial war against Islam in many countries. And of course
Britain has a system of apartheid against its immigrant minorities.

Since
the academic unions in most other Western countries are expected to
follow suit, another potential drawback will be the shut down of all of
the world’s leading academic journals. However, the EU Foreign Affairs
Minister Baroness Catherine Ashton noted, there was a major silver
lining in this outcome, stating:

This move is to be welcomed because
it will finally end the corrupt academic practise whereby superb
journals based in third world countries (such as “The Iranian journal of
peace studies”, “The Afghan journal of religious tolerance”, and “The
North Korean Journal of Economics”) were largely ignored.

Many
other scholars - including Professor Stephen Hawking - also pointed out
that the 58 Islamic states (none of which would ever have
reason to boycott themselves since they are never involved in any
aggressive acts and have an impeccable record of tolerance of religious
minorities) will finally be recognized for their outstanding
achievements in science, engineering and the law. When asked by a
reporter to name some of these outstanding achievements Hawking replied
that he believed they had disappeared into one of the black holes he had
recently observed.

About Fiona Warburton

I am a Politics Graduate of the LSE. After leaving LSE in 2000 I spent a year working with the International Solidarity Movement in Gaza, followed by a year servicing the right honourable George Galloway MP. I worked for the BBC from 2002-2011 as one of their senior advisors and analysts on Middle East News, although I occasionally provided expert insights on their global warming agenda. I am currently a freelance reporter for the Guardian and Al Jazeera. I pride myself on my fiercely independent and objective views, especially on the Middle East on which I am one of the only writers in the Western World who is not controlled by the Zionist mafia.